Coleridge's Later Poetry

Summary: "Morton Paley's helpful and judicious short study...look[s] at the later poetry as a body of work with its own characteristics and objectives, distinct from and not merely overshadowed by what preceded it. Disentangling the often tortuous textual history of these pieces...Paley alerts us to the processes of literary self-criticism and revision that testify to Coleridge's craftsmanlike concern to produce, from the con...tingencies of his personal life, works of art." [read more]